10/15/16..Went on our Faith Rider's Fall Color Tour...very nice day

Getting ready to pray before we ride

Started out being a beautiful warm sunny day

The whole group!  

Mike and Ariana Vargas!  He was the one who nominated Bill for chaplain many years ago at Trinity Riders.  Bill was so happy and has served as an officer ever since.

They made me get in the group picture

Joel and Wes....Wes couldn't ride the motorcycle because his hand is healing from carpal tunnel surgery

Beautiful color!

Matt and Lupe in jail at Cops and Donuts....We teased Matt because he was our road captain and he led us right by the diner we were supposed to eat at.  We had to look up online where it was and go back a few miles.  Told him we were very hungry, so he had to do jail time for his mistake.  They are fairly new to our group but he is now running for road captain for next year.  They went to BayShore for the fall free stay weekend, and their grandkids played with Melissa and Bruce's boys.

Funny, cuz Bill went in the jail and took a picture of us so it looks like we are all in jail.  He is just too cute!

Another fairly new member!  He's an electrician and he fixed our motorcycle and didn't even want to charge us.  We made him take something.  His wife is going to be secretary of Faith Rider's next year.  Yay for active members to help!  We are blessed

Restaurant we ate in was cute and had great food

We got ready and left to meet everyone at Meijer's.  There were 11 motorcycles and 19 of us that went.  It was sunny and in the mid 60's when we started.  On our way to Gladwin, the sun went under and it got cooler.  I never got cold at all though because I had layers on, and very warm, long gloves on.  I was warm all day.  It did warm up to 70 on the ride home which was very nice.  Mark and Marti came on the ride with us and are going to do the book to get their colors and become CMA members.

We went to Cops and Doughnuts on our way home and had yummy doughnuts.  We got Melissa and family some huge rice krispies treats with sprinkles and took it to them for coming to let Mocha out.  It was Bill's idea and was so sweet.  When I took them to her house, I got to eat 2 pieces of zucchini bread that Bruce had just made.  So delicious!   Kenzie stopped over for a while and had cookies and coffee.  

10/14/16...Kimmy and Vikki came over

Isaac and Peyton on the trampoline

Me and two of my sweeties

Bill is doing a great job on his little shed.  The door is on and the siding is going on.

The leaves are turning

Kimmy came over.  We sat visiting under our blankets. Vikki worked at the kids school so she came later.  We were all visiting and Kenzie came to the door.  We were happy to see her.  We all had egg sandwiches and chicken noodle soup.  Mykenzie and Kimmy shot Kenzie's pellet gun.   Kimmy had to leave to pick Jacob up for an appt.  Vikki and I went to goodwill to get some new gloves they had there with the fingers in that work on phones.  We went to pick up the kids after that. We talked to Katy for a few minutes. I sure was happy to see Peyton and Isaac come out.  I got my hugs and then we left and went to Melissa's so I could let Abby out.  She came to me right away and was excited to see me.  I opened the door to let her out and she didn't want to go.  I put her out and left the door open a little.  I walked out on the grass thinking she would follow me and she ran right back in the house.  This happened one more time and then I closed the door.  This time she ran and found a shady spot in the yard and laid down.  Finally, I picked her up and put her in the corner she always goes to and let her down.  Yay, she went potty on her way to the house.  Came to our house.  Kenzie was still there, but her work called her in so she was getting ready to leave. We put the kid's pumpkins in Vikki's car.  Picked some green peppers for Vikki.  Wes, Gayla and Joel pulled in back by the shed.  Wes wanted to see how Bill was coming with the shed.
It was nice seeing Joel!  Vikki was happy to see all of them and they were happy to see her.  Bill mowed the grass.  He mowed His Restoration's grass today too.  He is such a blessing!  I cooked a couple more squash.  Talked to Melissa on the phone and they had lots of fun at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.  They went to Hailey's volleyball party when they got home.

10/13/16...Went to Vikki's, then Melissa and the kids and I went to the park

Jack and Hailey

Hailey, Evan, Jack and Max

Hailey and Evan 

Max

Jack

Hailey at takeoff

Hailey is so good at these

Hailey, Evan, Jack and Max at the park

Hailey, Nana, Max, Evan and Jack

Silly faces

So much fun at the park

Hailey has such strength.  See that huge branch!  Love these pictures of Hailey, Evan, Jack and Max

Kimmy came to town so went to see her at Vikki's.  Lenny did some of his tricks.  He is such a good dog.  He would heal while Vikki walked and when she stopped he would sit.  Then she gave him a treat.  He is such a cute puppy and so smart.  Took some chicken noodle soup there for lunch.  After I ate some of that, I left to meet Melissa and the kids at the zoo. The zoo was closed so we went to McDonalds for hot fudge sundaes and Mc Flurries.  We went to the dog park but Kimmy and Vikki weren't there so we went to the park by my house.  The kids had fun playing and then we all had fun walking around the lake.  We came to my house after that and the kids played outside and jumped on the trampoline.  Charlie and Sue stopped over and brought us each a big cinnamon roll.  We had to leave to go to Harvey's for our Faith Rider's Meeting.  Bill rode the motorcycle and I followed behind him in the car.  The meeting went really well.  We have new people running for offices.  We vote next week.  Bill has done such a great job as president and we have grown and gotten younger people coming.  The food was delicious.  It was a little noisy even though we had the back room, but not too bad.  We were too full to eat our cinnamon roll when we got home.  

10/12/16...Went to Frankenmuth with Kimmy and Vikki for their birthday dinner at Zehnders! Went to Hailey's last volleyball game. They played St. Lorenz.

Beautiful daughters on the sides, pretty trees in that background

Best Chicken Dinners here!

Love my twins!

Birthday celebration fun!  

Had so much fun at Zehnders with Kimmy and Vikki.  I love that cute chick next to me!

Hailey and her team....

Hailey's ready to hit that ball

She has an amazing serve

Papa and one of his boys!  Jack loved sitting by Papa

If you look really close you will see that these kids have spots on them.  Yikes, I had to stay away from them until Jesus healed them.  They had so much fun acting out the story of the 10 lepers.  Two of our lepers weren't here tonight though so we only had 8.  The girl with her hand up was the only one who returned to thank Jesus.  When I asked them what they would really do if Jesus healed them though, all of them said they would thank him.  I have such great kids!

Thought this was so cute of Isaac with his spots.

Kimmy came this morning and we headed over to Vikki's.  Debbie was just leaving when we got there so we gave her a hug before she left.  We asked Melissa to go to Frankenmuth with us, but she was at Bible Study so couldn't go.  We left to go and took the country way.  Stopped and got some nice 5 gallon buckets for Kimmy that we saw on our way.  Got to Frankenmuth and took a few pictures before we went in.  Kimmy couldn't find her Zehnder's card so we went to see about getting a new one, but the girl said she could just show the server her license.  It was easy and she gave Kimmy a new card right at our table.  Kimmy and Vikki had their free all you can eat family style chicken dinner and I had a half hot chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes and dressing.  I also got to eat all the good delicious stuff the girls didn't like.  The girls asked the waitress if it would be ok and she said yes.  Sometimes it's good to have fussy girls.  I got the liver pate, stollen bread, and cranberries.  Also had cole slaw and cottage cheese.  The girls got hot fudge sundaes for their dessert with their meal.  I had my dessert downstairs in the bakery with samples of apple pie, sugar cookies and bread with pumpkin spread.  The girls were too stuffed to try any samples and I was stuffed after I ate the samples.  We went to Bronner's afterwards and the girls got their free ornaments.  They were pretty red ones.  We had so much fun looking at all the different ornaments and Nativity sets.  The girls had to pick their kids up, so we headed home.  

Bill and I went to Hailey's volleyball game!  Melissa, Bruce and the kids were there and also Bruce's dad.  Their team didn't win but sure played well and had much better teamwork.  Hailey served so good.  Came home and ate and then went to teach Kid's Care Group.  Had a fun lesson and the kids were great.  

10/11/16....Vikki and I went to our Election Training

Vikki and I at our Election training

Went to our breakfast!  Had 11 of us there!  After breakfast, I went to Melissa's and 

we went to McDonald's Nursery to walk around.  Enjoyed looking at everything, but there were some very high priced items.  Came home and cooked squash. Then packed up some chicken noodle soup and took it to Charlie and Sue.  Spent time with Sue and walked around her big yard.  It was a beautiful sunny day.  Left there, came home, changed and headed to the township hall for our Election training.  Vikki and I were the only ones from the precinct we are working.  Our Chair wasn't even there.  We ended up sitting with another group.  They ran into a few problems because our trial ballots had precinct one from our table and they were 2 so it wouldn't accept the ballots and they had to be marked spoiled.  We learned a lot of things, like if someone comes with a shirt with Clinton or Trump on it, we have to have them turn it inside out or cover it up with something.

We went and checked out where we would be working and stopped at Tony's on our way back.

10/10/16...Walked the rail trail with Vikki today!

Made Noodle Soup today!

Bill walked at the Sports Zone and I slept in.  I shampooed the upstairs carpets and then called Vikki to see if she wanted to walk the rail trail.  She did so we met and walked.  We saw Cathleen and Ruth and walked a little ways with them.  Then Vikki and I went ahead of them and walked on the sidewalk and then down the street and around till we got back to our cars.  Vikki was feeling faint when we got back to the car.  She hadn't eaten and was pretty warm.  She felt better once she got some pop and food in her.  When I got home, Bill was working on the shed.  It is looking great. I went and pulled the plastic up around my rosebush and by the front of the house.  It was hard work because of all the roots, but I finally got a lot of it done.  I have some scratches on my arms to prove it was me that done it.  Ha Ha. It looks so much better.  Made noodle soup and then after we ate, I called Vikki and we went looking for her birthday present.  Came home and relaxed with Bill.

10/9/16....Went to church in the morning and care group in the evening

Mocha was wearing her coat...it was cold this morning 39 degrees.  Still haven't turned our furnace on!  Electric throws and blanket sure are nice.

It was a napping kind of day.  I woke up to take the pictures of my napping buddies

We had a very cool night.  No frost here yet though.  Went early to church because I teach Sunday School today.  Had 13 kids in my class today.  Took a little gift and card to Kaiden.  He has pneumonia and hasn't been at church for a few weeks.  I was going to give it to his grandma, but then she showed me he was there.  I gave the gift to him and gave him a hug. He didn't come into my class as he didn't want to cough around the other kids.  We had a very relaxing day!  Even got a nap in.  Went over our lesson and went to care group at church.  It was a good lesson on resolving conflict.  Our care group took the snacks tonight.  We had crackers, cheese, sausage, salmon, fruit, cookies apples and caramel.  YUM!  Watching the debate now!